Submission to Migration Amendment Bill 2024
The Albanese Government’s brutal deportation and surveillance laws must be stopped .
The Migration Amendment Bill 2024 (Cth) (Bill) seeks to drastically expand the Federal Government’s powers to monitor, detain and deport people who are not Australian citizens, by allowing it to warehouse people in third countries, reverse protection findings made for refugees, and continue imposing punitive visa conditions on those who remain here.
Externalising Australia’s international protection obligations and warehousing people in third countries has never been, and will never be, an acceptable or effective response to political pressures. This Bill will cause serious harm that will reverberate through families and communities in Australia for years to come.
In a submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, the Human Rights Law Centre recommends that the Bill not be passed.
Submission to Inquiry into the Whistleblower Protection Authority Bill 2025
The Albanese Government is being pushed take the opportunity to enact stronger legal protections for whistleblowers and establish a Whistleblower Protection Authority.
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Joint submission against expansion of the Making Queensland Safer Act 2024
The Human Rights Law Centre and Change the Record have are strongly opposed to the Crisafulli Government's laws that will sentence even more children to adult-length terms of imprisonment. The laws will lock up children for even longer, and harm kids, families, and communities.
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Submission to 2025-26 Federal Budget consultation
The Human Rights Law Centre has put forward recommendations to the 2025-26 federal budget submissions across a range of issues, including campaigning for an Australian Human Rights Act, migration justice, prisoners’ rights, whistleblower protection and modern slavery.
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